After starting his career in the open wheel ranks and then moving to sports car racing, Guy Cosmo has long been checking off a wide range of boxes on his career to-do list. And this weekend will see one more item marked off the list as Cosmo is set to make his Pirelli World Challenge debut.

At this year’s world-famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, Aston Martin Racing will once again host the Aston Martin Festival of Le Mans, a celebration of the manufacturer’s racing history that includes a 45-minute race between cars from the past 11 years.

Sam Brabham is in with the chance of a lifetime, to win a seat on the grid at the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours as the third driver for Team SARD-Morand, following confirmation of his selection for the RaceTo24 online reactive reality competition.

Tristan Vautier is the fifth driver announced by TEAM SARD MORAND for one of the two Morgan EVO SARDs entered in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). For the first two rounds at Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps, he will join his fellow from France Pierre Ragues and Oliver Webb from Great Britain at the wheel of the #43 car.

In late 2014, Tequila Patrón ESM submitted two full-season entrant applications for the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC). Today the team received confirmation that it will compete in the eight-race FIA WEC season which includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Benoit Morand came to Paris a few days ago for the press conference of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans with SARD General Manager Hideki Noda and the French driver Pierre Ragues. On that occasion he reiterated the team’s ambitions for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Grand appearance for the Audi R18 e-tron quattro and the Audi TT cup at the 65th International Film Festival in Berlin: Audi drivers André Lotterer and Mike Rockenfeller drove their race cars up to the red carpet at the opening event of the Berlinale and attracted plenty of attention among the film stars.

Team ByKOLLES Racing participation in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2015 was yesterday confirmed by the FIA. With a full field of 35 cars, 21 of which are set to compete in the LMP category, Team ByKOLLES Racing will contest the LMP1 class with the CLM P1/01 bearing the race number 4, alongside ten other cars.

In late 2014, Tequila Patrón ESM submitted two full-season entrant applications for the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC). Today the team received confirmation that it will compete in the eight-race FIA WEC season which includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Fresh off a first- and third-place finish in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Corvette Racing confirmed its lineup for the 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Two familiar faces will join Corvette Racing for its attempt at an eighth class victory since 2001 - Ryan Briscoe and Jordan Taylor.

Alpine’s return to motor racing was announced at the start of the 2013 and has since harvested a long list of top results, including ELMS titles in 2013 and 2014, as well as LM P2 podium honours at Le Mans in 2014.

Wolf Racing Cars, an historic name of Formula 1, came back to the motorsport stage on April 25 2010 winning the debut race in the opener of the Italian Prototypes Championship held at the Misano World Circuit.

Krohn Racing is pleased to announce that the Krohn Team entry to the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) and the 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been accepted by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The official announcement came in today's ACO live press conference in Paris, France.

ViperExchange.com, TI Automotive and Riley Motorsports have been named the first reserve on the entry list for the 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, June 13 – 14, at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France.

Porsche Team Manthey has reshuffled its factory driver lineup in its two Porsche 911 RSR entries in the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC) and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. From the season-opening round at Silverstone on April 12, Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Richard Lietz (Austria) will join forces in the 911 RSR with the starting number 91. Sharing driving duties in the No. 92 911 RSR are the Frenchmen Frédéric Makowiecki and Patrick Pilet, who already teamed up last year to contest the second half of the season. Germany’s Wolf Henzler (No. 92) and Jörg Bergmeister (No. 91) will support the pairings as the third driver to contest the 24 hour classic at Le Mans.

Following its initial victory at the 2014 season’s final race in Brazil, more podium finishes are the goal for the future for the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Porsche announced this objective today at the annual press conference held by the Le Mans organizers, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), in Paris. To reach that goal the 919 Hybrid has been significantly developed in many areas.

The wait is over: The Selection Committee of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) has accepted all nominations submitted by Audi for the 83rd running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. As a result, three Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars will be competing in the world’s major endurance race on June 13 and 14, 2015, for which Tom Kristensen has been appointed as ‘Grand Marshal’ by the organizer.

Following the victories in the GT category since the birth of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC, first edition in 2012), the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italias are ready to defend the titles won in the best competition for GT cars in the world.

Villorba Corse is pleased to officially announce that it will join the LMP3 category in the 2015 European Le Mans Series with the new Ginetta-Nissan prototype. The team has signed a deal with Italian drivers Roberto Lacorte and Giorgio Sernagiotto. Their 2015 ELMS entry represents the first step of a racing programme called “Road to Le Mans” which aims to a future participation in the Le Mans 24 Hours. Conceived by Lacorte, founder and CEO of the Pharmanutra group, the project involves Villorba Corse and Pharmanutra with one of its brand. Their partnership will ensure that, for their own racing programme, the team will be renamed as Cetilar Villorba Corse.

In 2015 Nissan will enter the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO into the full FIA World Endurance Championship, marking a return to the premier class at the Le Mans 24 Hours for the Japanese manufacturer. Nissan will challenge for victory with an innovative approach and with a truly exciting product that represents the next generation of the Nissan GT-R.

The first driver of Nissan’s Le Mans challenger, the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, has been revealed as Marc Gene. The Spanish ace has an exemplary record in LM P1 racing with eight LM P1 Le Mans 24 Hours races under his belt. Gene’s experience is much in demand and he has been test driver at Scuderia Ferrari since 2005.

The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is the ultimate Nissan GT-R, the purest expression of innovation that excites. Competing in LM P1, the premier class of world sports car racing, Nissan’s Le Mans car is like no other car before it.

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